Main Street district records subgroup, circa 1812-ongoing.

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Main Street district records subgroup, circa 1812-ongoing.

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The Main Street District records subgroup is comprised of available documents pertaining to structures in the Main Street district of Greenfield Village. Types of documents include histories, clippings, affidavits, correspondence, and inventories. In some cases extensive interpretive guides used to help presenters offer visitors a robust background on the structure are included. The Greenfield Village records collection is organized alphabetically by building name. The records are updated as new information becomes available through research and records of new building additions as well as reinstallations are sought.

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912

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Wilbur Wright, born April 16, 1867 in Indiana, and his brother, Orville, were inventors of the airplane. The brothers were in the printing and bicycle business in Dayton before they became interested in solving the problems of powered flight. After a series of kite and glider experiments at Kitty Hawk, N.C., the brothers built and successfully flew the first heavier-than-air powered machine on Dec. 17, 1903. The Wrights spent the next years improving their invention and in 1909, formed a company...

Wright, Orville, 1871-1948

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Orville Wright was a pioneer aviator. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, on Aug 19, 1871. He was a son of Bishop Milton and Susan Catherine (Koerner) Wright. In 1903, with his brother Wilbur Wright, he devoted much of his time to Wright Brothers' flying machine. He died on January 30, 1948, in Dayon, Ohio....

Henry Ford (Organization). Greenfield Village.

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Dr. Howard's Office.

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Carousel (Greenfield Village)

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Phoenixville Post Office.

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Wright family.

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Grimm Jewelry Store.

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J. R. Jones General Store.

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Wright Cycle Shop.

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Stone Mill.

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Heinz family.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Sir John Bennett Sweet Shop.

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Hearse Shed (Greenfield Village)

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Suwanee Park.

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Greenfield Village Tintype Studio.

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Jones, J.R. (James R.), 1858-1933.

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Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Howard, Alonson Bingley, 1823-1883.

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Bennett, Sir John, 1805-1891.

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Heinz House.

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Town Hall (Greenfield Village)

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Cohen, Elizabeth, 1860-

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Eagle Tavern.

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Logan County Courthouse.

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Heinz, H. J. (Henry John), 1844-1919

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Henry John Heinz (b. October 11, 1844, Birmingham, PA–d. May 14, 1919, Pittsburgh, PA) was the founded and President of the H. J. Heinz Company based in Pittsburgh, PA. H. J. Heinz Company was incorporated in 1905 and Heinz served as its first president. Under Heinz, the company was noted for fair treatment of workers and for pioneering safe and sanitary food preparation....

Martha-Mary Chapel (Greenfield Village)

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Cohen Millinery.

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Wright Home.

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Magill Jewelry Store.

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Scotch Settlement School

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